Thursday, June 22, 2017

Earlier today, the city of Richmond announced the formation of a
“Monument Avenue Commission” to “help the city redefine the false
narrative of the Confederate statues that line Richmond’s grandest
Boulevard”. The Virginia Flaggers are extremely disappointed that
Richmond’s newly elected Mayor, Levar Stoney, has chosen to make war
against the Confederate monuments that line Monument Avenue in Richmond
and against the thousands of descendants of Confederate Veterans that
they represent and honor, diverting precious resources and taxpayer
money away from the real and pressing matters facing the Capital of the
Confederacy, and creating division and disharmony in our community.

Thankfully, the Commonwealth has a law that protects ALL war memorials,
and also prevents them from being altered. Following the lead of
disgraced New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, Mayor Stoney has chosen to
tow the PC line of the NAACP and SPLC, who have promoted the false
narrative that our monuments and memorials are somehow tied to “racism,
slavery, Jim Crow, and white supremacy.” This false narrative has
gained traction with the left, who has successfully used it to convince
politicians to take up their cause of attempting to remove every trace
of the Confederacy from public view. Mr. Stoney appears to have caved
to their pressure.

Poll after poll shows that an overwhelming majority of citizens of the
Commonwealth oppose any removal or altering of War Memorials, and across
Virginia, politicians who have supported such nonsense have
consistently been voted out of office or lost their bid for election.

Our monuments and memorials need no new “narrative” or “context” added
to them, especially one based on the PC false narrative of the NAACP and
SPLC. Their meaning is carved in stone and has absolutely nothing to
do with “racism, slavery, Jim Crow, or white supremacy”, and everything
to do with honoring men who answered the call of the Commonwealth to
defend hearth and home from invasion.

The Virginia Flaggers stand ready to vigorously defend these monuments,
and the men they represent, from any and all destruction, removal,
and/or alteration, and support for our Cause gains momentum with every
petty attempt like this one where a politician looks to make a name for
himself and gain political points with a very small percentage of their
electorate. Mayor Stoney would do well to look to Charlottesville,
where City Council voted to destroy the Robert E. Lee monument, in
violation of state law, and in the process plunged the city into chaos
and racial division that locals say is unlike any they have seen in
decades. Of the three councilmen who voted to remove the monument,
disgraced Vice-Mayor Wes Bellamy has lost his teaching position with
Albermarle County and his position on the State Board of Education,
Kristen Szakos has announced she will not run for re-election, and Bob
Fenwick, who cast the deciding vote, recently lost his bid for his
party's nomination for his council seat.

True diversity and inclusiveness is not achieved by destroying the
history of one group of people, in order to appease the demands of
another.

CALL TO ACTION!

The city has set up a website to receive public comments, www.monumentavenuecommission.org. Please visit the website and leave a comment asking them to leave the monuments alone.

7 comments:

I marvel at the ungraciousness - no, the hatefulness - of these people! Are they never satisfied? We lost the war and have been subjugated ever since, and now they won't even let us keep our monuments to the dead unless THEY get to interpret them! May God thwart every plan of theirs!

Obviously fighting any new “context” or change is the priority. However another simultaneous battle can be waged over what’s included in the Commission’s proposed context itself. Correcting the false narratives promoted by Yankees here up North and their co-conspirator Home Yankees there down South with some simple truths that inform.

Any changes or new context MUST include:1. The number of black, white and other women raped and/or murdered by Union forces during the war, along with available victim names and their stories.2. The estimated number of Africans who died on Yankee slave ships along with the Yankee slave ship horror stories (There were NO Confederate slave ships.)3. The number of Northern slaves freed by the Emancipation Proclamation... zero.4. The total estimated value of Virginia items pillaged by Union forces in both then and now dollars.5. The names of ALL of Virginia’s Confederate soldiers killed by Union forces, their total number as well as their race, religion and ethnicity.6. and so on...

1.During the war, Jefferson Davis and his family adopted an orphaned black child and took him in as their own. Not as a slave, but as a child to raise. As far as I know, Abe Lincoln never did such a thing to save his life.

2.Lincoln was not an abolitionist. Direct quotes from Lincoln himself suggest he was not only not an abolitionist, but every bit a white supremacist! During the Lincoln-Douglas debates he said he considered the Africans in America "inferior" and believe they should never hold any public office or be able to vote! "Let the South go? where the would be our revenue?"

3.War crimes were done by Lincoln himself- including launching a war upon the South without congressional approval, as well as suspending Habeas Corpus. He sent 75,000 troops to occupy Ft. Sumter- with the sole intention of inciting a retaliation to commence the war in which he desired.

4.Robert E. Lee was perhaps the first white man ever to take communion next to a black man in church. The whole congregation followed suit. Lee made it known that he didn't like slavery. His slaves were freed in 1862. He believed in defending his homeland- his beloved Virginia.

5.Jefferson Davis in his own words said "We fight not for slavery, but for independence" Let us put all these truths out for all to see.

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WHO ARE THE VA FLAGGERS?

We are citizens of the Commonwealth who stand AGAINST those who would desecrate our Confederate Monuments and memorials, and FOR our Confederate Veterans.

The Virginia Flaggers were organized on September 5, 2011. What began with just a few dedicated Southerners, has now grown to include hundreds of people, from all over the country, who have joined us in defending the honor of the Confederate Veteran, protesting Heritage violations, and forwarding the colors in Richmond, and Virginia… and beyond!

When needed, flaggers stand with our flags against those in opposition in a peaceful, yet forceful manner, to educate and inform the general public, and in open and visible protest against those who have attacked us, our flags, our ancestors, or our Heritage.

Flaggers speak for those who have no voice. We relay a message of Honor, Dignity, Respect, and Heritage to those who never knew, or to those who have forgotten, and to attempt to reach those who refuse to hear.

Our weapon is the Confederate Battle Flag. Our enemies are those who worship ignorance, historical revisionism and Political Correctness.

We take pride in taking a stand for the Cause. For this Cause, we call others to flock to the banner of our ancestors, take up their flags, and join us in battle, for OUR TIME IS NOW.

The Va Flaggers reject any person or group whose actions tarnish or bring dishonor upon the Confederate soldier or his reason for fighting, including those groups and persons using our cherished flag as a symbol for their own dishonorable purposes.